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Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer.One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
The films and TV productions Ned Kelly (1970), Trial of Ned Kelly (1977), The Last Outlaw (1980), Besieged: The Ned Kelly Story (2004), Ned's Head (2011) and True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) all used the interior of Old Melbourne Jail as a set for the scene of Kelly's hanging. The scenes were filmed either at the actual location of Kelly's ...
What May Happen to a Man in Victoria is a 1878 Australian play by E.C. Martin. [1]Martin was a journalist who would later write a play about Ned Kelly, Ostracised. [2] This play was his first and was based on the real life of an Italian charcoal-burner, Biondiette, found guilty of murdering his mate who was condemned and hanged on circumstantial evidence.
Ned Kelly is a 1970 British-Australian biographical bushranger film. It was the seventh feature film version of the story of 19th-century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, [5] and is notable for being the first Kelly film to be shot in colour. The film was directed by Tony Richardson, and starred Mick Jagger in the title role.
Kelly was hanged at Melbourne gaol on 11 November. Hare later recalled, "The coroner who held the inquest on Ned Kelly told me he seldom saw a man show so little pluck, and if it had not been for his priest, who kept him up, he would not have been able to walk to the gallows." [7]
Two of the gang (including Moonlite's "soulmate" and alleged lover, James Nesbitt) and one trooper were killed when the police attacked. Scott was found guilty of murder and hanged along with one of his accomplices on 20 January 1880. [10] Among the last bushrangers was the Kelly gang in Victoria, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous ...
The policemen surround the town and engage in a furious shootout with the armour-clad gang, seriously wounding Ned Kelly and killing the other three members of the gang. Kelly's narrative stops abruptly just before the shootout itself; a secondary narrator, identified as "S.C", relates the tale of the gunfight and Kelly's death by hanging.
Ostracised, or Every Man's Hand Against Them is a 1881 Australian play about Ned Kelly by E.C. Martin. [3] [4] It was the first straight dramatisation of the Kelly story from an Australian writer although there had been one in London. [5] The play was banned in Sydney. [6]